Without the suspended Steven Gerrard, Martin Skrtel and Emre Can, the Reds found it difficult to get their passing game going on a poor pitch, while Blackburn, with in-form targetman Rudy Gestade only on the bench, struggled to muster any sort of attacking threat.

However, on 70 minutes the breakthrough finally came for Brendan Rodgers’ men, with Philippe Coutinho playing a deft one-two with Jordan Henderson before rifling the ball into the back of Simon Eastwood’s goal.

Late on, none other than Eastwood himself had a chance to level the scores after coming up for a corner. However, the ‘keeper fired his effort straight at Mignolet and the Premier League side held on for the precious victory.